BIOMARES global objective is to help "make the ocean great again". Its approach is based on assessing the importance of each of the anthropic impacts and by raising global awareness on anthropic impacts and illustrating the poor state of the oceans life. BIOMARES organize conferences, movies screenings about each of the ocean anthropic impacts. BIOMARES screenings are often followed by public debates, like on Overfishing for example. BIOMARES assess the state of Marine biodiversity worldwide and analyses the UN objectives on biodiversity (CBD-Aichi targets, UN SDG 14). By comparing them with the current state of the oceans life, we identify possible gaps. BIOMARES will showcase the current state of world corals by screening the movie "Chasing Coral's" to the public in Belgium. The world premiere of "Chasing coral's" will be on Netflix on July 14, 2017.

BIOMARES seeks and proposes solutions to improve the state of the ocean and use a rational approach based on the mitigation of main anthropic impacts on the ocean. BIOMARES use a long term approach to evaluate the reference line of what is a healthy ocean. BIOMARES has world experience on ocean fisheries and on global marine biodiversity issues. BIOMARES propose to use its experience to help identify solutions for the recovery of World Ocean. BIOMARES regularly write articles on ocean and marine biodiversity issues linked to climate change. Climate change is now a major anthropic impact, affecting in particular, the ocean. This was recently proved by the mass bleaching and dye off of corals worldwide. Next to other impacts, like overfishing, many kinds of pollutions, ecosystems destructions, climate change may well be now the final blow for threatened species and push thousands of marine species on the Red list of threatened species. This was illustrated by the mass mortality of Coral in 2016 and 2017. Corals dye off is threatening up to 25% of world Marine biodiversity. In tropical countries, corals constitute the great majority of marine biodiversity (up to 90%) and his major source of livelihood for poor artisanal fishermen and their food security. The massive dye off of corals, now also puts many of those poor fishermen in danger of disappearance. Remember, fish as always been the protein of the poor.

Progress reports

July 2017

Screening of the movie

Novembre 2017

Conference on the state of Marine Biodiversity

Octobre 2017

Screening of documentary on Overfishing, followed by public debate in Belgium

Staff / Technical expertise

Documentary on overfishing and technical expertise by fsiheries biologist

Staff / Technical expertise

Film documentary

Staff / Technical expertise

Review of the State of Marine Biodiversity, expertise by technical expert marine biologist